V-rex wrote...
The latest twitter posts about Ashley being 'mature' and the one from Ken Thain about how he 'loves working with this lady' actually imply some very positive signs that may lead me to be more hopeful about Ashley in Mass Effect 3.
The first one about her being mature and reasonable could well just be code for 'written and designed to appeal to the pleasure centers of teenage boys' it could actually genuienly mean that she's less hot headed and passionate and more reasonable and ready to talk about things in a calmer straight manner.
If that is the case then it is very likely that the huge concern that Ashley's very mild 'xenophobia' (which has since become the primary topic of debate about the character) will become amplified into stereotypicial proportions as it becomes her sole character trait (a process known as Flanderization), might not actually happen.
Maybe she'll still have issues with aliens or maybe she will have moved on, but either way I do know that 'mature' and 'confident of herself' and 'reasonable' don't usually mesh with words like 'racist' and 'extremist' and 'n*zi'. Especially when you consider at least part of her hostility towards aliens is based on her own feelings of inadequecy, her actually being sure of herself would make a lot of that go away.
While, again, this could all be part of a blatant attempt to make her into a male fantasy but when choosing between two unpleasant choices regarding the fate of Ashley's character direction, I would rather see her be made into a pleasant non threatening male fantasy figure then her turned into a hateful xenophobic one.
If nothing else, it would be nice to see Ashley undergo a change, be more accepting of aliens and less likely to fly off the handle and even maturely explain and apologize for Horizon. Maybe it would finally be enough to finally end hostilities towards her.
Second, when the dev said 'I love working with this lady' it gave me another moment of joy. Because if developers are actually saying that they like working with the character it probably implies at least some degree of respect FOR the character in question. Which is good because if the developers are demonstrating a liking for the character it potentiall means she won't be handed a sh*t hand like last time, given that she's been promoted to Spectre and been given a full time squadmate role, I'm liking those odds.
While I'm not about to get anyone's hopes up (these tweets prove nothing except individual opinions at this point) all I will say is that, based on these tweets, it implies that the developers are actually liking using Ashley and are under the impression that they are steering her characterization in a fair and respectful way may imply that at least some of our potential worries about Ashley may be for naught.
I know it's been a sh*t storm of terrible for us of late, but I'm daring to be hopeful for the first time in a long time.
Please for the love of god, NO.
so basically make her into a pushover that is at Shepard's every beckon call? Sorry, that is NOT Ashley and that is definitely not what I would want as a "fantasy" woman.
She needs to be hot-headed and brash... that's just a part of her IMO.
ToP Ash:
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